Electrician remanded in prison custody for robbery

Accra, July 6, GNA - A Circuit Court in Accra on Wednesday remanded into prison custody Maxwell Adams, an electrician, for robbery.

Adams is being held for arming himself with a cutlass and snatching the handbag of Ms Gifty Mensah, a student, containing a gold chain, a mobile phone and cash of GH180 cedis at the Kaneshie-Takoradi Station at dawn.

He pleaded not guilty and would re-appear before the court presided over by Mr Eric Kyei-Baffour on July 27.

The prosecutor Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kofi Blagodzi told the court that the complainant, Ms Mensah, resides at Mamprobi while accused lived at Kaneshie.

DSP Blagodzi said on June 27, this year, at about 3:30 am, the complainant and her mother, a witness in the case, arrived from Tarkwa and alighted at the Kaneshie-Takoradi Station.

The prosecutor said the complainant hired a taxi to transport them home and whiles packing their luggage into the booth of the car, two young men armed with cutlasses, snatched her handbag containing a gold chain valued at GH350 cedis and her mobile phone valued at GH80 cedis and a cash of GH180 cedis and bolted.

He said the following day, the complainant went to the MTN office for replacement of one of her two chips.

Ignorantly, Adams called the complainant's other phone number and she lured him to meet her at a spot. The complainant alerted the Police and two Policemen were asked to accompany her to the said spot to meet Adams and he was nabbed.

On July 4, this year, the Police went to the house of Adams and searched his room where 15 assorted mobile phones, a digital camera, phone batteries and three cutlasses were found.

The prosecutor said when Adams was quizzed by the Police, he claimed all the items belonged to him.